About The Artist

Sarah Nguyen

Artist Statement

Using modern mediums and techniques, I render each subject then allow forces such as gravity, chemical interaction, and random chance to take over and dissolve the forms, reflecting the occasional dissolving of boundaries between dreams and waking life, and between self and other, that we experience when engaged in universal human activities such as play, ritual, and art.

BIOGRAPHY
Sarah Nguyen is a painter living and working in rural Missouri. Her work has appeared in solo and group exhibits and publications nationally and internationally. She received her BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Painting from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She works as an Art Instructor at the University of Central Missouri and Art Editor of Pleiades Magazine. She currently lives in central Missouri with her husband, the writer Phong Nguyen, and their three sons.

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Sarah’s work represent a part of our nature in which paintings become alive... The artwork lets us know that nature offers up its gifts to people. - Aleksei SubbotinMount Mercy Times

There are very beautiful moments in the work, when the materials dictate their own nature and play a part in creating the image: when the paints become mottled and pooled, when the pastels layer upon each other in an unexpected way, when the tyvek is cut so much to become a lacy scrim as it falls to the ground, like shadows cast from a tree. - Tony and Caroline GrantSustainable Arts Foundation